Pandora's Box

I was quite moved yesterday by all of the posts on social media to mark Father's Day. All of them positive mentions of dads that are v...

And in the news today, death, destruction, misery and a large portion of general finger pointing. That's pretty much what the news d...

Good grief, modernity is a hard place to exist within isn't it? Isn't it ? It absolutely is my friends. Everything is so fast...

How wonderfully refreshing it is the be overwhelmingly delighted by three minutes and nineteen seconds of pure joy. It's a rare gif...

I woke-up this morning with the same set of thoughts that the weekends appear to allow my over-tax mind these days; must lose weight, take...

At the end of the month, I will be jobless and will therefore not have the support of my current dependable income. Redundancy . What a ...

Good grief Charlie Brown! It's been a bit of an emotional roller-coaster for me over the past few months. Up and down, up and down, u...

Once I had a secret love, that lived within the heart of me. All too soon my secret love became impatient to be free sang Doris Day whilst...

When I started this blog, I did so as it afforded me a space in which to express my views and feelings about anything and everything. T...

Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas at ours without Child Two and myself finding a cinema in which to watch Franks Capra's 1946 ...

If life has taught me one very important lesson, it is that you should never go shopping for food when you're hungry. And I mean rave...

Having suffered from depression myself, I felt that it would be of use for me to see how fellow sufferer Ruby Wax had moved on from the s...

Let's face it, life is what you make it. Isn't that after all what Talk Talk sang all about in 1985, which actually seems like y...

I love The Brothers Grimm. The initial tales that they wrote were an ironic reflection of their name, as they are far from elementally pl...

When I was seventeen I fell in love for the very first time. However, this did not arrive without its own issues as I can quite clearly ...

When I decide to embark upon a journey, the paramount objective in doing so, is to achieve it via the smoothest route possible. It isn...